Re: Brinks Home Security Fraud

[Frank Olson <use_the_email_links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

failur_drill wrote:
> On Jun 11, 10:11 pm, Anonymous Sender
> <anonym...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> If you ever want to get really screwed - sign up with this horrible company. their sales representatives, tell you you can terminate at any time with no problems, just notify them. that is totally false. i signed up my office building with them, it was sold two years later. when we moved they told us we had to sell their service to the next buyer of our building or we could not terminate the service. not likely.
>
> I just moved in to a house with a Brinks system already in it. My
> uncle is a professional alarm installer, so I had him look at it. He
> said the system wasn't very good, and he put in a real nice one for
> me. I helped him do it, and really learned a lot. Brinks commercials
> make it seem they are the best, but my uncle says they really don't do
> a very good installation. He showed me some reasons, and we took some
> pictures of our installation, and of the Brinks wiring that we
> removed. You can see the pictures at
> http://s277.photobucket.com/albums/kk41/computorman/
> Wow, I guess my uncle was right. He said it looked like the Brinks
> guys were in a big hurry, or maybe they just didn't care about their
> system.


Nice pics.  The Brinks install sucks.  They take the time to run that
much wire in the attic and they've never heard of "drive rings" or
staples?  And mounting the can there???  What's with that??  It's a
service nightmare.  You've got to get your ladder out every time you
want to get into the panel...  Yech!!!  If *any* of my guys did an
installation like that, I'd kick their skinny asses out the door.

It looks to me like your uncle knows what he's doing.  And it's great
that he's showing you the ropes.  I just hope he spells better than
you...  "computorman".  :-)